You Need to follow below steps to fetch a Gmail contacts list & show it in a grid view.
- Download Google Data API Dlls
- Extract Google MSI component
- Implement Code to fetch contacts
Download Google Data API Dlls: Open the below
link & click, download Google_Data_API_Setup_1.9.0.0.msi
http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/downloads/list
Extract Google MSI
Double click the downloaded MSI component & provide the path to extract the
code. Usually it will extract into c:\Program file.
To fetch the DLL, go to C:\Program Files\Google\Google Data API SDK\Samples
Implement Code to fetch Contacts
Create a new website
Copy the below dlls from the above sample path & add below dll to your solution
- Google.GData.Client
- Google.GData.Contacts
- Google.GData.Extensions
Add a new webpage to solution & name it "contactlist.aspx".
Now add the below grid view to the page
<asp:GridView
ID="GridView1"
AutoGenerateColumns="true"
runat="server"
BackColor="Aquamarine"
ForeColor="Black"
BorderColor="OrangeRed"
Font-Names="Comic
Sans MS"
Width="525">
<AlternatingRowStyle
BackColor="Aqua"
/>
<HeaderStyle
BackColor="Crimson"
Font-Italic="false"
ForeColor="Snow"
/>
</asp:GridView>
Go to .aspx.cs page and following code & also add following to the class
using
Google.GData.Client;
using
Google.Contacts;
using
Google.GData.Extensions;
private
void FetchContactList()
{
// Define string of list
List<string> lstContacts =
new List<string>();
// Below requestsetting
class take 3 parameters applicationname, gmail username, gmail password. Provide
appropriate Gmail account details
RequestSettings
rsLoginInfo = new
RequestSettings("",
"[email protected]",
"XXXXXX");
rsLoginInfo.AutoPaging = true;
ContactsRequest cRequest =
new ContactsRequest(rsLoginInfo);
// fetch contacts list
Feed<Contact>
feedContacts = cRequest.GetContacts();
// looping the feedcontact entries
foreach (Contact
gmailAddresses in feedContacts.Entries)
{
// Looping to read
email addresses
foreach (EMail
emailId in gmailAddresses.Emails)
{
lstContacts.Add(emailId.Address);
}
}
// finally binding the
list to gridview defined in above step
GridView1.DataSource = lstContacts;
GridView1.DataBind();
}
Finally you will be able to see the data in the gridview.
Happy coding... Hope this helps!